Animating 2D Paintings with a Procedural Mesh + Skeletal Animation Framework in UE4

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Hello Game Devs,

Here is a demo UE4 scene animating some paintings extracted from the British Library Lab’s public domain archives ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums) The 2D paintings are brought to life via the Creature Procedural 2D Motor System, it’s UE4 plugin and of course the most important entity, Unreal Engine!

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The overall process and video is documented here:

More info on animating one of the birds in the video is here:

Characters are animated in Creature (http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/ ), with the human clothing done using the new dynamic Cloth + Wind Fields feature.

I have made the UE4 Project and plugin available for all to download and play around here:

I hope you guys have fun trying out the project and viewing the video posted above.

Cheers!

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This tool is incredible - exactly what I was looking for - for 2d games as well as own non game animations! Excellent work.

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Thanks!
You might be interested to know there is a new demo up that features a simple game of Elephant vs Soldiers done with Creature:

The Creature Plugin for UE4 has also been updated + polished and enhanced making integration rather easy:

Cheers!

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//////////great job

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This is pretty cool!

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Thanks!

You can also check out another UE4 demo made with Creature:

UMG Widget support has been added recently:

Also, there are some features for the Creature Editor to help create more stunning animations like Animation Controllers:

Cheers